Pick of the World Episodes Episode guide
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18/01/2025 GMT
The pick of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service chosen by listeners.
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11/01/2025 GMT
The pick of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service chosen by listeners.
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Pick Of The World
The pick of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service chosen by listeners.
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Best of 2024: World of Secrets & a surprise Banksy
World of Secrets, a real-life K-Pop drama and waking up with a Banksy in your garden
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Which country has the best schools in the world?
More than 400,000 of you watch our education episode of The Global Story on YouTube
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Rapping and skydiving - the joy of new things
You loved seeing the world's oldest battle rapper - plus jumping from a plane at 102
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How Gen Z and TikTok are changing the way we speak
Social media is driving language change around the world at a rate never before seen
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The strange tale of Siegfried and Roy
The magicians who shocked and surprised when they worked with lions and tigers
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Had a 'bird-brain' moment lately?
You might want to find a new phrase for that, thanks to our Outlook show
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What's in your office lunch?
Plus, unusual stories about how people met the love of their life
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What Trump's election win means for Africa
A special episode of Pick of the World from Cape Town in South Africa
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We answer your US election questions
Plus, pass me some low-hanging fruit: why we can’t stop ourselves using office jargon
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We sniff out the science of body odour
Why do our armpits smell? More than 1,000 of you left a comment on our question!
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How do you take your tea?
Tea drinking is a very serious business around the world - what's your ritual?
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Why, err, we speak with 'filler' words
The β€fillerβ€ words that we all, um, use in chat, plus the monk who became an Ibiza raver
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Sri Lanka's honey bee queens
Uplifting stories and amazing videos - the moments lighting up your online week
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Your advice to the world's billionaires
Plus the global cities you think have the best nightlife - and the voice inside your head
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The twin sisters reunited after decades apart
The amazing story of Judith and Joyce - and your response to their reunion after decades
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Chappell Roan and our strange obsession with fame
What in the World looks into the problems of social media and superstardom
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The Somali teen who became a supermodel
You have been sharing our video about the amazing story of Waris Dirie
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How long can you go without your smartphone?
People Fixing the World escapes its notifications by visiting a phone-free cafe
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How would you spend a billion dollars?
Plus, the Amazon tribe who may hold the secret to living a long life
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Watchmaking in Ghana and stargazing in Kenya
Four stories from the continent of Africa light up your social and digital channels
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The stories beyond the medals from the Olympics
Plus, Dua Lipa’s dad talks to us about his quest to put Kosovo on the musical map
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Your view on India's mega wedding
Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant's three-day spectacular cost a reported $600m
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The man who discovered how to cook with air
What cooking tip you would pass on to friends and family?
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The scammers pretending to be Chinese police
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Trending investigates fake Chinese police targeting people online
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An epic motorbike ride across Africa
One woman's 9,000km journey through 10 African countries - from Kenya to Nigeria
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The Dutch couple who decided to stop living
An incredible story of loving, living and dying - with more than four million clicks
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Why laughing is really good for you
Why it’s good to giggle plus skateboarding, bungee jumping and the happiest place to be